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We study the problem of calculating transport properties of interacting quantum systems, specifically electrical and thermal conductivities, by computing the non-equilibrium steady state (NESS) of the system biased by contacts. Our approach…

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Many have speculated whether nonequilibrium systems obey principles of maximum or minimum entropy production. In this work, we use stochastic thermodynamics to derive the condition for the minimum entropy production state (MEPS) for…

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Recent developments in stochastic thermodynamics have elucidated various relations between the entropy production rate (thermodynamic dissipation) and the physical limits of information processing in nonequilibrium dynamical systems. These…

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Non-equilibrium thermodynamics provides a general framework for understanding non-equilibrium processes, particularly in small systems that are typically far from equilibrium and dominated by fluctuations. However, the experimental…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-08 Yu Zheng , Lyu-Hang Liu , Xiang-Dong Chen , Guang-Can Guo , Fang-Wen Sun

Recent experiments have revealed heterogeneous dissipation in optically trapped systems, often anticorrelated with local positional fluctuations, exposing a structural gap in the scalar stochastic thermodynamic description. While the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-01 Erez Aghion , Swetamber Das

A cornerstone of the theory of phase transitions is the observation that many-body systems exhibiting a spontaneous symmetry breaking in the thermodynamic limit generally show extensive fluctuations of an order parameter in large but finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 H. Wilming , M. J. Kastoryano , A. H. Werner , J. Eisert

Biological assemblies such as chromosomes, membranes, and the cytoskeleton are driven out of equilibrium at the nanoscale by enzymatic activity and molecular motors. Similar non-equilibrium dynamics can be realized in synthetic systems,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-06-04 Federica Mura , Grzegorz Gradziuk , Chase P. Broedersz

Spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs in various equilibrium and nonequilibrium systems, where phase transitions are typically marked by a single critical point that separates ordered and disordered regimes. We reveal a novel phenomenon in…

We define a characteristic energy density based on the measurement of the two first moments of the extrinsic injected power smoothed over time. Using the stationarity, we show that this definition characterizes an energy per degrees freedom…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-06 Sebastien Aumaitre , Antoine Naert

The question of characterization of the degree of non-equilibrium activity in active matter systems is studied in the context of a stochastic microswimmer model driven by a chemical cycle. The resulting dynamical properties and entropy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-27 Michalis Chatzittofi , Jaime Agudo-Canalejo , Ramin Golestanian

We present a comprehensive study about the relationship between the way Detailed Balance is broken in non-equilibrium systems and the resulting violations of the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem. Starting from stochastic dynamics with both…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-16 Sara Dal Cengio , Demian Levis , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

We show that macroscopic irreversible thermodynamics for viscous fluids can be derived from exact information-theoretic thermodynamic identities valid at the microscale. Entropy production, in particular, is a measure of the loss of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-17 Danilo Forastiere , Francesco Avanzini , Massimiliano Esposito

We study the nonequilibrium steady state (NESS) of an ordered harmonic chain of $N$ oscillators connected to two walls which undergo diffusive motion with stochastic resetting. The intermittent resettings of the walls effectively emulate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-09 Ritwick Sarkar , Pritam Roy

The thermodynamic approach to non-equilibrium dynamics describes the state of macroscopic systems by means of a collection of intensities or intensive variables. The latter are by definition the differentials of the entropy with respect to…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Z. Hens , X. de Hemptinne

Living systems are maintained out-of-equilibrium by external driving forces. At stationarity, they exhibit emergent selection phenomena that break equilibrium symmetries and originate from the expansion of the accessible chemical space due…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-01 Shiling Liang , Paolo De Los Rios , Daniel Maria Busiello

The oscillatory dynamics of nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) is at the heart of many emerging applications in nanotechnology. For common NEMS, such as beams and strings, the oscillatory dynamics is formulated using a dissipationless…

The developing field of stochastic thermodynamics extends concepts of macroscopic thermodynamics such as entropy production and work to the microscopic level of individual trajectories taken by a system through phase space. The scheme…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-30 Cillian Cockrell , Ian J Ford

The fluctuating dynamics of a network about its stable, noise-free steady state are theoretically investigated. Various causes of non-equilibrium dynamics are identified in terms of the properties and symmetry of the network connections and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-15 Pik-Yin Lai

The local entropy production in a shock wave was analysed in the framework of non-equilibrium thermodynamics (NET) of surfaces. We show that the thermodynamic state variables in the shock front are equal to their equilibrium values, despite…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-04 Bjørn Hafskjold , Dick Bedeaux , Signe Kjelstrup , Øivnd Wilhelmsen

Entropy production is a universal measure of irreversibility and energy dissipation in physical, chemical, and biological systems operating far from equilibrium. However, quantifying and spatiotemporally localising it in complex processes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-18 Biswajit Das , Sreekanth K Manikandan